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[Eugen Leitl]

On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 05:06:23PM -0600, Bryan Bishop wrote:

> Yes, that's what I was thinking as well. In computer architecture, we 
> have specific address buses and we are able to figure out where 
> messages come from (actually, their positioning on the input device 
> tells us, by definition). But in a cell, we have molecular gradients to 
> deal with, and the communication just does *not* work this way. There 
> needs to be a way to transform our usual programming expectations into 
> this wetware situation. 

Have you considered the possibility that there is no human-parseable
mapping into the problem space? People do emergence and massive
parallelism very badly. Sequential processes and processivity are
mutually exclusive. Brew a cup of tea, and think about it for a while.
 
> There's tons more on neuroengineering -- there's all sorts of brains in 
> a jar, neurons in a dish, MEAs, brain implants, and so on. It is 
> somewhat my specialty interest. See the Innerspace Foundation, they say 

Since I'm not coming very through very well, I have to be blunt.

This stuff is not done by blah-blah. This is science, as in: not 
computer science, and this is hard. As long as you don't get your
hands wet yourself, you won't understand how your expectations and
reality will differ.

So, please, instead of posting wacky shit on the internets: spend
some time in the problem space. It will take time, frustrate you to
no ends, but also give you a feel of the realities in the problem
space. 

> they are going to begin running neuroengineering competitions soon. 
> 
> http://heybryan.org/docs/neuro/

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